John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my
> > RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name,
> > but I like it.
> >
> I think you're going to have to change everything to "james" (all lower case.)
> Shouldn't be THAT hard.... just a "chown -R james.users ~/James"
Solving the wrong problem.
Edit /etc/passwd; change James to james; run pwconv (assuming you left
shadowed passwords enabled); done.
chown operates on UIDs, not usernames; usernames aren't stored in the
properties of the files either, only the UID's are. So change the
passwd file and James' files will all appear owned by james. Run "chown
james foo" without changing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow first, you'll
get an error.
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Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
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